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It's my sketchblog, and it gets updated far more often than my dA page.

Got to add a year to my age. Just one more and my insurance premiums will drop again

Just joined the bifrost DA club, it's definately woth checking out if you're interested in an art club, or just a new group of friends to play with and bounce ideas off of.

I'm noticing a very umpleasant trend in my work. My pallate lacks finesse. Whatever my intentions are, I end up with a lot of super-saturated, high-contrast peices, unless I force myself only to use shades of one color through white. This can't be good. I mean, it can be good, in the case of doing some work for children, color is fab. Then again, Maurice Sendak did not do what I'm doing.

I mean, it's got its place for sure. But I can do better than that. For the month of June...well from June 6 to July 6 I will challenge myself to do a few, but no less than three works that are well composed, using a more restrained and subtle color pallate than I have been used to. In Painter or using real media. I am more comfortable with my color choices in vector stuff, so I'll hold off on that for a bit.

Meanwhile, the search for good source material continues.

I think I'm on a quest.

I mentioned Max Ernst and his desire to be Jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, and the pragmatist in me screams that that is artsy-fartsy nonsense, that illustrators market one or maaaaybe two styles and that's it so do that or you'll starve, damnit!

Anyway I think I should always try to expand, because that's just healthy. Excersize is good for the brain, and all that. But right now I'm really starting to enjoy this one sepia-looking, watercolory, pastelley, simple style. So I'm a-going to see if I can make that more sopisticated. I have some cute cows and things to upload later (with the way I update my devART journal, later is probably going to mean three months ago when someone who is not me reads this,)

It forces me to do clean up my prepwork, which is always a good thing. The better the initial sketch, the better the final project, because they're practically the same thing.